Workshop History

1. St. Andrews (2017-Aug-07)

The first “Analysis of data from high-resolution animal-borne tags” workshop took place in St. Andrews on 7-9th August 2017. This 3-day course covered all aspects of tag calibration, data validation, data processing & quality checking, visualisation and statistical analysis.

14:00-15:00 Topic 3: Measuring movement: an introduction to the different products of acceleration, low, medium and high frequency accelerations.

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 Topic 3 continuation.

16:30-17:30 Topic 4. Dead-reckoning and analytical methods.

Wrap up and beer-discussion outside the venue, location TBD.

Materials for Workshop Participants

Software

Participants should have their own machine with either R, Matlab, or Octave installed. We assume a basic familiarity with at least one of the three platforms. R users may also want to install RStudio as an interface to R.